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Capitalizing Switzerland
Our first Swiss Saturday tended more toward damp than dry, but no matter the weather, our plan was to bid Zürich "auf Wiedersehen." By this point, it was a breeze navigating the Number 14 tram line that carried us and our luggage to the Hauptbahnhof (main railway station). So within an hour the hyper-efficient Swiss rail system was whisking us …
A first visit to the Capital.....
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I decided on Spaghetti Carbonara tonight, one of my usual meals when in Europe. While dining I was watching not only the Waiters running back and forth, but also the steady procession of customers either arriving or leaving. This seems to be an extremely popular restaurant! I had a chat with the Owner while I was having my after dinner coffee, and he offered me a complimentary Limoncello, which I gladly accepted.
After dinner I went for a short ...
Being an account that will make couch potatoes ...
... it'. Here in Switzerland though, they do things a bit, erm, differently. We should have seen it coming. It's not like there weren't signs. We went for a hike in Liechtenstein and saw on the map that we would be passing by a 'Hütte' (Hut) on the way down. Great, we thought, conjuring up images from the Alpine Club of Canada. With any luck there would be an outhouse, maybe a water source. Not quite. This Hütte was more like a restaurant, complete with ...
The beautiful city of Bern
... love how you can enjoy a beer on the streets. Everyone who street drinks around Europe are so well behaved, the crazy ones are usually the tourists. Spain won by 4 - 0. The Spanish supporters were blowing horns, cheering and letting off red smoke bombs. It was good to experience the Euro Cup while traveling through Europe, we have watched it in Amsterdam, Germany and Switzerland were the spirit is all the same. We had an evening flight from Geneva to Bordeaux so got up early to ...
Quick stop in Bern
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We first followed the walking tour suggested in our guidebook past a church, fountains, market, the Parliament building and down to the river. (Still the Aare river that we had walked along yesterday in Interlaken.) We walked along fairly quickly, and then looped back to the train station.
We found a Migro grocery store and shopped for lunch. I carried the iPhone around using the calculator app so we knew how much we were spending. ...